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You may notice the new box on this page, upper right. Through digital downloading we can again offer the music on those early SLAM CDs which have been out of print, some for more than 10 years. All these CDs are now available for digital download through all main digital stores. Click on the CD you are interested in and it takes you to a direct link to Amazon, itunes and eMusic .... or check out your favourite store.

Howard has been a regular and productive recording artist on SLAM since the very early days of 1990. In fact his discography includes 16 SLAM CDs. In his solo recordings he has always shown a preference for the short tracks, which he has on occasion referred to as his ‘Short Stories’. This, his latest studio session, is very much of that character, with 17 tracks of around 3 and 4 minutes – plus, as is not uncommon, the inclusion of a jazz standard, in this case a couple of takes on ‘April in Paris’.

"Listening to the music on this CD is to hear, in an almost Dickensian flow of characterisation, much of the history not just of jazz but of 20th century music, plus some Romanticism, plus some Baroque, flowing past. Riley in his pomp is also a music historian…. Precious moments"Brian Morton.

Stix and StonesSLAMCD 567 Barcode: 5028386633833 Pianist David Haney in a series of duets with some of his favourite drummers: Bernard Purdie, Han Bennink, Giovanni Barcello, Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and Jimmy Bennington.

"The Middle Half"SLAMDA 287 is an album on digital release only, all SLAM CDs are available by digital download from all digital stores;this new CD will be our first aimed specifically at digital sales. It is not available through our distributors, a limited number of hard copies are available direct from SLAM; these are professionally 'burned' copies, not pressed CDs.

The CD is called "The Middle Half" by The Esmond Selwyn Hammond Organ Trio, comprising Esmond Selwyn Guitar, John-Paul Gard Hammond Organ and Robin Jones Drums. The music is a collection of 8 extremely swinging standards, Sandu, On Green Dolphin Street, Darn That Dream, Mr PC, Yardbird Suite, Sunny, Taking A Chance On Love and I Hear A Rhapsody.